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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edith Nourse Rogers, Representative from Massachusetts, one of the four lady members of the House elected a fortnight ago, visited the White House to discuss the textile industry. She urged a Universal 48-hour week and lower freight rates...
...pursued its negotiations with Premier Baldwin and a settlement appeared looming on the basis of district agreements between the miners, owners, subject to revision in individual cases by a national coal tribunal under Government auspices. There was every prospect that the miners will have to accept longer hours and lower wages than was their lot before they struck...
...behooves us, therefore, to go ahead with the work of preparing them for ultimate nationhood. This means to govern the Islands efficiently, to create a colonial service which will enlist competent men in the lower positions--men of the type who went to the Islands in the days of Cameron Forbes, ready to sacrifice their lives, if need be, in order to serve the Filipinos. It means giving future governors the power to administer constructively. It means investing money, establishing farm schools, and inaugurating a campaign to introduce modern agricultural methods. It means developing roads and inter-island communications...
...wall, but the Eli backs were more successful in stopping the always dangerous Dartmouth passing attack. This weakness against an air attack has been fatal to Harvard all season; it was under cover of a barrage of passes that Holy Cross came from behind in the second half to lower the Crimson colors and later Brown showed the ease with which aerial thrusts might pierce the Cambridge armor...
...felon around a sliver in a finger. Kokichi Mikimoto employs 500 Japanese girls and many a man to go diving for the pearl oysters, hazardous occupation. Last week he debarked at San Francisco, on his way to inspect his Exposition show; remarked: "Naturally, I do not want to lower prices, but I have one aim-a pearl of my own for every woman in the world." (He already has produced one-eighth of the world's supply of cultured pearls...